It's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin's life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve.

When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a significant amount of money under the guise of 'freelance work,' Roisin thinks her luck might finally be changing. But Claire's proposal is not all it seems, and soon Roisin finds herself trapped. Paralysed by both her intense infatuation with Eve and her secret arrangement with Claire, Roisin must walk a delicate line to avoid losing what matters to her most.

About the Author

Alessandra Thom is a writer from Aberdeenshire. She was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee for Prose in 2023 and the second-place runner-up in the Short Fiction International Short Story Prize 2024. Her short fiction has appeared in Gutter. Summer Hours is her first novel.

Reviews

'Alessandra's writing is both vivid and compelling, combining raconteurial warmth with sharpness, poise and an enviable instinct for rhythm. Whether its subject is family legacy and memory or the precarities of young adulthood, this is writing attuned - apparently effortlessly - to both atmospheric subtleties and the timeless antagonisms of intimacy'

-- Daisy Lafarge



Book Information
ISBN 9781846976711
Author Alessandra Thom
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Publisher Birlinn General
Weight(grams) 230g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm